Best Responsibility Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 28

“Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.”

Action Spiritual Order Powerful Responsibility Accepting Materials Consequence Agents Accepting Responsibility

Author:Les Brown

“The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It's very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It's been incredibly good for business.”

“For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm.”

Years Has Beens Responsibility Higher Mountain Impact Environmental Missions Harm Corporate Zero Climbing Sustainability Social Responsibility Footprint Everest Environmental Impact

Author:Ray Anderson

“I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.”

People Feels Turns Responsibility Great Music

Author:Randy Jackson

“A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and responsibility in our society. Neither will a person who believes that the holocaust was a hoax. But people who believe equally irrational things about God and the bible are now running our country. This is genuinely terrifying.”

People Believe Persons Stills Country Running Responsibility Alive Position Our Country Our Society Holocaust Irrational Unlikely Great Power Hoaxes Power And Responsibility

Author:Sam Harris

“The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as Americans. The time is come - it is now - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.”

“The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow - man.”

Men Book Individual Responsibility Teach Special Dignity Fellows Doctrine Revelations Fellow Man Individual Responsibility

Author:Daniel Webster

“The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.”

Jobs Left Responsibility Thought Provoking Provoking Betterment

Author:David Packard

“Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.”

People Art Challenges Responsibility Art Is Status Quo Personal Responsibility Conformist Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Seth

“Anyone who takes responsibility for getting something done is welcome to ask for the authority to do it.”

Done Asks Responsibility Authority Welcome Taking Responsibility

Author:Seth

“We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.”

Giving Next Responsibility Giving Up Income Taking Responsibility

Author:Seth

“I feel a great responsibility to deliver for our audience ... I am like their servant, but there's only one honest way to lift people up, which is to feel genuinely elevated yourself. And the way to do that is follow your heart. That's all we try to do.”

People Way Feels Trying Heart Responsibility Music Audience Honest Lifts Servant Follow Your Heart Great Responsibility

Author:Trey Anastasio

“I come here because it is fun. I have fun when I come here. I do not come here because I feel that I have any great responsibility for your beings or welfare. Who am I to set myself against the innate wisdom of your own individual being, or to take upon my invisible shoulders the great privilege or joyful responsibility for your behavior and destiny?”

Feels Individual Fun Responsibility Destiny Behavior Privilege Invisible Shoulders Having Fun Welfare Joyful Innate Great Responsibility

Author:Seth

“We have the responsibility to put our gifts to work.”

Responsibility

Author:Les Brown

“Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.”

Thinking Want Believe Children Responsibility Teach Failing Teaching Stupid Succeed Not Stupid

Author:Al Green

“What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.”

May Mean Doe America Opportunity Answers Responsibility Principles Rights Equal Agree Equal Opportunity Basic Principles America Freedom

Author:Ben Nelson

“We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.”

Years War Lasts Used Responsibility Military Ought Resources Iraq Terrorist Afghanistan Last Year Offensive Pakistan

Author:Bob Graham

“Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner.”

Believe Animal Responsibility Horse Agree West Congress Symbols Controlled Protected Wild Horses American West

Author:Jon Porter

“First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.”

Firsts Kind Book Form Felt Challenges Responsibility Particular Periods Creating My Family Artistic Slums Creating Something

Author:Frank McCourt

“I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.”

I Can Action Decision Responsibility Accepting Support Military International Iraq Commit Britain Collectives Agreement Military Action Collective Responsibility

Author:Robin Cook

“We have heard that we are all missionaries. Every member ... is or ought to be a missionary; ... as members of the Church, having pledged ourselves to the advancement of the gospel of Jesus Christ we become missionaries. That is part of the responsibility of every member of the Church”

Jesus Christ Church Responsibility Heard Ought Members Jesus Christ Missionary Advancement

Author:Joseph Fielding Smith

“We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines.”

Children Parent Responsibility Materials Agree Primaries Manipulation Engines Website Obscene Containing Search Engine Devious

Author:Robert A. Brady

“I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as well as everyone else's job, impacts the environment in some way. And now advocating for sustainability has become my No. 1 responsibility.”

Thinking Way Wells Jobs Used Work Business Responsibility Environment Impact I Realized Sustainability Advocating

Author:Ray Anderson

“I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.”

Years Lying Desire Responsibility History France Gravestone Inscriptions

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“It is essential to view learning as a total community responsibility.”

Community Views Responsibility Essentials

Author:John Abbott

“My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.”

Giving Heart Process Understanding Responsibility My Heart Giving Up Gains Surrender Gods Will Obedience Yield Understanding You

Author:Bill Johnson

“At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.”

Men Way Heart Responsibility Protect Appropriate Mature Masculinity Benevolent Protect Women

Book:What's the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible

Source: What's the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible

“I always feel a responsibility to the kids, to be somebody they could look up to.”

Feels Looks Kids Responsibility Look Up

Author:Roy Rogers

“True, we must dare look things in the face before we dare think, speak, act, or assume responsibility. If we dare not even look, what else are we good for?”

Ifs Thinking Looks Faces Speak Responsibility Assuming Dare Existential

Author:Lu Xun

“If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us. We hold these institutions of government, religion, and learning, to be transmitted, as well as enjoyed. We are in the line of conveyance, through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit and efforts of our ancestors is to be communicated to our children.”

Source: The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster

“Animals love. They love their being. They strive to survive, to celebrate, to propagate . So certainly something we learn from animals is love. To survive and to celebrate, propagate and to love life. To be the best we can be - the right to be here and the responsibility to be the best dog or bear or horse that they can be. Humans have the tendency to self pity that other animals don't indulge in.”

Humans Self Animal Responsibility Dog Bears Horse Strive Pity Tendencies Celebrate Being The Best Love Life Indulge Self Pity Indulge In Animal Love

Author:Matthew Fox

“Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.”

Mean Children Real Responsibility Sacrifice Share Walking Commitment Willingness Fatherhood Walking Away Mean Love Love And Commitment

Author:William Bennett

“As architects we have a responsibility to society”

Responsibility Architect

Author:Richard Rogers

“The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.”

Want Emotion Responsibility Ecstasy Spares

Author:Jessamyn West

“My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.”

Heaven Responsibility Destiny My Destiny

Author:Bill Johnson

“Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.”

Home Responsibility Divine Calling Husband Protection Primaries Servant Provision Servant Leadership Headship

Book:This Momentary Marriage

Source: This Momentary Marriage

“The person best suited to look out for your interests is you. The more you depend on yourself, the more positive control you have over every aspect of your life. Take personal responsibility for who you are, what you do, and how you live. You are the only person who knows what is best for you. And you are the one who is most able to achieve it!! You have GREATNESS within you!”

Knows Looks Persons Able Interest Responsibility Achieve Greatness Depends Aspect Who You Are Within You Personal Responsibility Aspects Of Life Greatness Within

Author:Les Brown

“Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.”

Nations Interest Responsibility Doubt Special Israel Admire No Doubt Valiant

Author:George Ball

“You have GREATNESS within you, and responsibility to manifest that greatness!”

Responsibility Greatness Manifest Within You Greatness Within

Author:Les Brown

“Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.”

“The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.”

Children Doe School Responsibility Teaching Tasks Assuming Accomplish Sublime Solemn Elementary School

Book:First Lessons: A Report on Elementary Education in America

Source: First Lessons: A Report on Elementary Education in America

“These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.”

Source: Vital Involvement in Old Age

“Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.”

Littles Responsibility Modern Politician Blame Modern Politics

Book:United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country

Source: United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country

“A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.”

Two Hands Responsibility Burden

Book:James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.”

Way Feels Wells Opportunity Responsibility Land Planets Investment Well Being Our Planet

Author:Ted Turner

“For me to train and get ready for racing, I can't just sit in the gym all the time and that's the way it is. Responsibility starts and stops with me. My main gig is grand prix driving, that's what I do and I need to keep that in the forefront of my mind.”

Way Needs Mind I Can Responsibility Ready Train Driving Gym Racing Gigs Of My Mind Grand Prix

Author:Mark Webber

“Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.”

People Persons Action Answers Responsibility Taken Responsible Mature Responsible Person

Book:The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

Source: The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

“I don't absolve my father completely of his responsibility for what he did to us I feel compassion, maybe. He had his demons. But I still can't understand how a man can walk away from children. And leave them to starve, as we nearly did, if it wasn't for my mother going out and begging.”

Ifs Men Feels Children Stills Mother Father Walks Responsibility Compassion Demon Going Out Begging

Author:Frank McCourt

“Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.”

Way Force Responsibility Behavior Blame Avoiding

Author:James Redfield

“It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.”

Knows Humans Action Asks Responsibility Consequence

Book:Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life

Source: Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life

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